"Zygarde..."
Diancie's face instantly turned deathly pale, as though she had recalled something.
Once, through the Sacred Diamond, she had experienced the First Generation Queen Diancie's perspective in the first person.
That was when her original predecessor had battled Yveltal and heard from her mother, Xerneas, about the balance of order and the cycle of life and death.
Not to mention that back in the Pokémon world, Little Soft had repeatedly warned both her and Su Hao.
From the standpoint of it and the Rational Core as guardians of order, if they learned that the God of Death was unwilling to fulfill its duties while the Life Deity had awakened and become active time and again...
Their choice would either be to personally make the God of Death go berserk, or to leave the Life Deity severely injured and near death, in order to maintain a temporary balance between life and death.
This had nothing to do with personal motives. What they sought was absolute balance and order; whether it was fair to Xerneas and Yveltal was not within their considerations.
It was cruel, but there was no clear right or wrong.
Precisely because of her conversations with Little Soft, after returning to Blue Star, both Su Hao and Diancie had consciously or unconsciously reminded Xerneas of this. They had even considered taking it and Little Y to the isolated Valley of Creation.
But before they could put that idea into action, during a break in their competition, Xerneas had been attacked by Blue Star's Zygarde!?
"...We need to get back as soon as possible."
Placing a hand on Diancie's shoulder as she stood there in a daze, Su Hao decisively activated a function on the watch that had somehow appeared on his wrist.
The next moment.
Tapu Koko jolted